Staff Engineer, AI Security

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See yourself at Twilio

Join the team as Twilio’s next Staff Engineer, AI Security.

About the job

As a Staff Engineer, AI Security on the AppSec team, you’ll lead autonomous defense for the AI lifecycle. Build multi-agent frameworks and secure gateways while integrating real-time security gates and identity standards. By mentoring Security and R&D to define the MLSecOps roadmap, you’ll ensure a "secure-by-default" future for agentic workflows and resilient AI innovation.

Responsibilities

In this role, you’ll

Serve as the primary subject matter expert for all AI and machine learning security initiatives across security and R&D.

Design and manage AI gateways to provide a centralized control plane for authentication and authorization and rate limiting across all model and tool interactions.

Build and maintain an autonomous security agentic framework that utilizes multi agent orchestration for end to end investigation and alert triage and remediation.

Develop agentic identity models using OAuth 2.1 to propagate identity across trust boundaries and prevent the confused deputy problem.

Help govern the AI augmented software development lifecycle by integrating real time security